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Thread #47143 Message #702841
Posted By: Anglo
02-May-02 - 09:30 AM
Thread Name: Help: info on easter carol
Subject: RE: Help: info on easter carol
Unfortunately my Valley Folk LP seems to have gone AWOL, so at the moment I can't listen to it or check the liner notes, but I do know that A. L. Lloyd was running that side of Topic at the time, and he said something like: "If you want to record for Topic, this is the LP I want to put out and these are the songs." He gave them the music, and he gave them very little advance time to put it together, which is why many of the arrangements are much sparser than the songs they were doing in their club performances. So if the texts are composites, you can be more certain that it was Bert Lloyd's work than of Arsenal winning the double.